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3) Beauty
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Queen Veda of Ran shuns anything that makes her look or feel less than the fairest in the land, including her daughter Ana. To gain her mother's love Ana goes to great lengths to make herself appear ugly.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When the mothers of four sixth-grade girls with very different personalities pressure them into forming a book club, they find, as they read and discuss "Little Women," that they have much more in common than they could have imagined.
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Dark Ascension volume 1
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English
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Two sisters. One chance for the throne. Drizella and Anastasia know only one thing for certain: they will never end up like their mother, Lady Tremaine. The only version of Lady Tremaine that they know is a bitter and cruel head of house. They have promised themselves they'll find love, see the world, and never let their hearts turn so cold. But fueled by Lady Tremaine's tendencies to pit her daughters against each other, Drizella and Anastasia find...
7) Wait for me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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As her senior year in high school approaches, Mina yearns to find her own path in life but working at the family business, taking care of her little sister, and dealing with her mother's impossible expectations are as stifling as the southern California heat, until she falls in love with a man who offers a way out.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets.
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Nora Holmes is an artist, a painter from the moment she could hold a brush. She inherited the skill from her grandfather, Robert, who's always nurtured Nora's talent and encouraged her to follow her passion. Still, Nora is shocked and elated when Robert offers her a gift: an all-expenses-paid summer trip to Europe to immerse herself in the craft and to study history's most famous artists. The only catch? Nora has to create an original...
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English
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When the sister who delighted their parents by her faithful embrace of Mexican culture dies in a tragic accident, Julia, who longs to go to college and move into a home of her own, discovers from mutual friends that her sister may not have been as perfect as believed.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
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English
Description
During Benjamin Franklin's visit to Paris in 1776, sixteen-year-old Sabine Durand rails against the strict rules of society and her social-climbing mother by rejecting her arranged marriage and spending more time with servants and others who accept Franklin's political ideals and those she read in Voltaire's Candide while having her portrait painted by the renowned artist, Fragonard.
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When Jo steps onto planet Tau Ceti e, it should be the happiest moment of her life. After all, she's been training ever since she can remember to be a cadet pilot in the International Space Agency. She's dreamed of the day she and her family would leave Earth forever and begin life as pioneers on a new planet. But now she can't stop thinking of everything that has gone wrong on their mission: the terrible accident that almost destroyed their craft,...
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